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Legislative leaders around the country, so that we can fill out a map showing exactly how much health care coverage with was lost in the united states supreme court. how bad a hit to the affordable care act take in the supreme court? it may turn out that more people will lose coverage because of the medicaid rewrite than would have lost coverage if the individual mandate had been thrown out. think progress led the way today on how to cover this story. they posted this map, which shows only 16 st...

Most states or enough states would implement the new medicaid option. so now with washington democrats who didnt trust the states to do this on their own are just pretending that the states will now do this on their own, now that they have the option. the truth is, we dont know what the states are going to do, and we need more people working on this question than just the people at think progress. if 8 million people or more just lost health insurance coverage in the united states supreme court,...

Unlike president obama, you dont have to wait until after the election to find out what i believe. or what my plans are. >> welcome back to "the ed show." now, mitt romney keeps telling us hes got a plan. but he keeps refusing to give us answers on some of the most critical issues facing this country. now, think progress went out and listed the issues romney just keeps dodging. romney wont say whether he would undo the new immigration policy, he wont commit to the paycheck fairness act. he wont ...

Now, think progress went out and listed the issues romney just keeps dodging. romney wont say whether he would undo the new immigration policy, he wont commit to the paycheck fairness act. he wont tell us which tax loopholes he would close to make his budget work. he cant name the federal agencies he wants to cut. he refuses to say whether he would have signed the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. he wont take a stand on the violence against women act and he wont talk about the carried interest tax ...

>> well, general aeu think progress would look like iran suspending all of its domestic enrichment, coming clean on its nuclear weapons activities and committing to honor the nonproliferation treaty. i think progress would look like an assurance this iran is not going to develop nuclear weapons and i think we are a long way from progress. jenna: joe, what do you think about that? would you design progress the same way? >> well that is definitely the end state, but we are a long way from there. t...

State sent local election supervisors a list of more than 26 2600 registered voters who are not u.s. citizens and not eligible to vote. they are responded wearily and pointed out inaccuracies. one tweeted this photo with a real live u.s. citizen and registered florida voter who was incorrectly targeted by the state of florida as a noncitizen. the voter is the guy on the left there holding up his passport. thats his u.s. passport. he is a citizen. he was purged from the rolls. the folks at think ...

Floridas voter registration rolls. over the last several weeks the state sent local election supervisors a list of more than 2600 registered voters who are not u.s. citizens and not eligible to vote. they are responded wear rily and pointed out inaccuracies. one tweeted this photo with a real live u.s. citizen and registered florida voter who was incorrectly targeted by the state of florida as a noncitizen. the voter is the guy on the left there holding up his passport. thats his u.s. passport. ...

Rights of women. governor bob mcdonald still auditions to be the republican ticket with mitt romney is upped this statement hours before his party denied the judgeship. candidates for judicial vacancies must be considered based solely on their merit, record, aptitude and skill. according to to james lankford of oklahoma discriminating against someone who is gay is justified. thats because he believes being gay is a choice. here is what he told think progress. >> do you believe in legislation tha...

Vacancies must be considered based solely on their merit, record, aptitude and skill. according to james lankford of oklahoma discriminating against someone who is gay is justified. thats because he believes being gay is a choice. here is what he told think progress. >> do you believe in legislation that should protect gay people from being fired for being gay? >> have you seen a piece of legislation or is there one youre referencing? >> no. just would you support a law. >> similar for people on...

Threatened to chip away at rights of women. governor bob mcdonald still auditions to be the republican ticket with mitt romney is upped this statement hours before his party denied the judgeship. candidates for judicial vacancies must be considered based solely on their merit, record, aptitude and skill. according to james lankford of oklahoma discriminating against someone who is gay is justified. thats because he believes being gay is a choice. here is what he told think progress. >> do you be...